The third annual Race for Peace that this year celebrates the Mountain Peace Shelter’s 25th anniversary is set to run, rain or shine.

The 5K race begins at 9 a.m. June 11 at the east end of the King Soopers Center in Conifer and winds through Meyer Ranch, along the property’s runway, down the old stagecoach trail and back to the shopping center.

Tookie Scherder, organizer of the race, said the event is the biggest fund-raiser for the shelter, which provides services for abused women, their families and pets.

Five fifth-graders at Parmalee Elementary School have had a single mission this school year: raising money and collecting items to send to Africa.

The students, who form the Student Leadership Club, have put their energy, commitment and compassion to work. They have orchestrated clothing and toy drives at school, and have sponsored fund-raisers to pay for postage to send boxes to a nonprofit called Sharing to Learn, which helps educate children in Makuleke, South Africa.

An Evergreen man pleaded guilty under a plea bargain May 16 in Jefferson County District Court after being accused of Internet luring of a minor with intent to exploit and attempted sex assault on a child. A sentencing hearing was scheduled for July 11 at 10 a.m.

Under the plea agreement, Ryan Michael Lafferty pleaded guilty to the attempted sex assault, a class 5 felony, and the Internet luring of a child charge was dismissed. The felony carries a possible penalty of one to three years in prison.

A former staff member of the Hiwan Homestead Museum has been named as the new executive director and curator of the Humphrey House Museum on South Soda Creek Road.

Angela Rayne, executive director of the Houston Fire Museum since 2009, is a former resident of Evergreen from 1999 to 2009 and the former executive director of the Denver Firefighters Museum. She starts her new job June 1.

The homeowners have withdrawn their application to rezone a house on Mariposa Road to allow its use as a short-term vacation rental, after losing a bid to legalize another short-term rental on Independence Trail on May 17.

The planning commission was scheduled to consider rezoning the Mariposa house at a regular meeting May 25. That case will now not be heard.

The seniors at Green Ridge Meadow Apartments decided to hold an unusual afghan raffle to raise money for a get-together or an outing.
There are five afghans, all crocheted in different designs and colors by Green Ridge resident Lynn Tucker, a gifted craftsperson.
One of the afghans is a needlework sampler of sorts, consisting of about 30 unique squares all crocheted in a different stitch pattern and then sewn together. Tucker made the afghans out of scraps of yarn for virtually no cost.